REPORT TITLE:
Merit Pay; Demanding Schools


DESCRIPTION:
Provides pay and release time incentives to teachers working in
demanding schools.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.1605       
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO EDUCATION.
 


BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that schools that are
 
 2 demanding need to attract quality teachers to teach there.  Merit
 
 3 pay and release time incentives improve the morale of teachers
 
 4 teaching at demanding schools and also attract quality teachers
 
 5 and persuade them to remain at those schools.  The purpose of
 
 6 this Act is to require the department of education to provide pay
 
 7 and release time incentives to teachers at demanding schools.
 
 8      SECTION 2.  Chapter 320A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 9 amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated
 
10 and to read as follows:
 
11      "302A-    Teacher incentives; demanding schools.  The
 
12 department shall provide pay and release time incentives to
 
13 teachers working at demanding schools.  For purposes of this
 
14 section, "demanding school"  means a school that is
 
15 geographically isolated, or has a large number of special
 
16 education children who are in the class being helped by the Felix
 
17 v. Waihee decree or other criteria that the department may deem
 
18 appropriate."
 
19      SECTION 3.  There is appropriated out of the general
 

 
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 1 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so
 
 2 much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 1999-2000, to 
 
 3 provide pay and release time incentives to teachers working in
 
 4 demanding schools.
 
 5      SECTION 4.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
 6 department of education for the purposes of this Act.
 
 7      SECTION 5.  New statutory material is underscored.
 
 8      SECTION 6.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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10                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________